Am I Too Old to Get a Cochlear Implant? Where Can I Learn More?

If hearing aids are no longer helping you manage your adult onset hearing loss, a cochlear implant may be an option for you.

Criteria for CI candidacy is different now than it was even a few years ago due to the success of the procedure. There are more implant surgery centers now than a decade ago. If you talk to people who received implants a few decades ago, most will tell you that the updated external devices have improved immensely. It does not require a new implanted device to upgrade CI processors, so many of those pioneers who agreed to be CI candidates in 'the early days' continue to benefit from the advances.

The question about aging comes up often. Am I too old to do this? If you are healthy and want to hear, check out the following:

An international forum has been scheduled by the Cochlear Implant International Community for Action on this topic. The link below will take you to information. https://ciicanet.org/events/ciica-live-ci-in-older-people-what-do-we-know/ The http://www.CIICInet.org website is helpful too.

Let us know what you learn!